This
site
from
SERC's
Starting
Point
presents
sample
Gallery
Walk
questions
about
the
solar
system.
Topics
examined
include
snowball
earth
(driving
factors,
deglaciation
mechanisms,
development
of
life),
the
composition,
structure,
fusion
process,
and
features
of
some
stars,
the
subsolar
point,
water
rich
comets,
the
circle
of
illumination,
seasonal
changes,
time
zones,
distinguishing
characteristics
...
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This homework exercise, developed for an undergraduate geology course at Tulane University, leads students through the steps involved in determining the probability that a flood of a given discharge will occur in any given year. Students retrieve discharge data from U.S. Geological Services Internet sites for Dry Creek, LA, Rapid Creek, SD and Red River, ND to make their calculations.
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This
portal
provides
links
to
selected
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
educational
resources
that
may
be
useful
to
undergraduate
educators.
Many
of
these
resources
can
be
used
directly
in
the
classroom,
as
preparation
for
lessons
or
demonstrations,
or
as
resources
for
teacher
education
and
curriculum
development.
The
resources
are
also
searchable
by
state
or
region
with
the
use
of
an
interactive
...
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This
portal
provides
links
to
selected
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
educational
resources
that
may
be
useful
to
educators
in
secondary
school
grades.
Many
of
these
resources
can
be
used
directly
in
the
classroom,
as
preparation
for
lessons
or
demonstrations,
or
as
resources
for
teacher
education
and
curriculum
development.
Major
topic
areas
include
biology,
geography,
geology,
and
water
...
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This
news
article
describes
how
mountain
lakes
in
Nepal
and
Bhutan
have
become
so
overfilled
by
water
from
melting
glaciers
that
they
are
in
danger
of
overflowing.
Scientists
from
the
United
Nations
Environment
Program
(UNEP),
along
with
remote-sensing
experts
from
the
International
Center
for
Integrated
Mountain
Development
(ICIMOD),
predict
that
in
the
next
half
decade
or
so,
the
Himalayas
could
...
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This
repository
of
journal
articles
is
the
combined
effort
of
the
Science@NASA
team
and
the
Science
Mission
Directorate
at
NASA
headquarters.
The
articles
cover
a
broad
range
of
NASA
discoveries
and
develop
"citizen
science"
opportunities
for
readers,
while
still
producing
old
favorites
such
as
Apollo
Chronicles
and
"looking
up"
stories
about
backyard
astronomy
events.These
articles
are
dated
from
...
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Grade level:
Middle (6-8), High (9-12), College (13-14), Informal, General public

Students learn about the formation of craters and their structure, exploring the effects of mass, velocity and size on the resulting crater. The parts of a crater are also identified.
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This undergraduate level course examines the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, and meteorite impacts. A brief course description links to course lecture notes, homework exercises, and a list of other natural disaster information sites on the World Wide Web.
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These lecture notes provide an introduction to igneous rocks. The notes cover information about characteristics of magmas, plutonic rocks, volcanic rocks, and textures of igneous rocks. There are several illustrations within the text. This resource is part of the Teaching Petrology collection. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology03/index.html
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In this lesson, students will investigate changes in air quality due to human interaction particularly burning of fossil fuels, and crop burning which increase levels of carbon monoxide. Students will evaluate changes in air quality over a 6 month time frame using Air Quality-Carbon Monoxide Data and draw conclusions based on observing color plot comparison graphs.
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